The Bathroom Renovation Process: What to Expect
You might have a long list of dream renovations, whether you bought a fixer-upper or you’ve been living in your home for decades. If it’s finally time for the bathroom renovation of your dreams, we’re here to calm your fears and detail the entire process so you know precisely what to expect from your bathroom renovation in Sydney.
Whether you plan to do most of it yourself or you want the professionals to handle your renovation from start to finish, the steps are similar. You can’t take any action until you’ve assessed your needs and requirements.
Understanding Your Needs & Budget
Think about your current layout and design – what do you hate about your bathroom and why? Do you constantly complain about how dark it is? Is it a functionality problem? Maybe the design is tired? Whatever your issue, it’s important to understand your needs before you take any action steps to renovating bathroom spaces. If you’re renovating a family bathroom, you might want to keep a bath, but if it’s an ensuite you could save space with a walk-in shower.
The good news is if you know the general idea of what you want but you don’t know how to turn it into a practical idea, a reliable bathroom renovation contractor can turn your dreams into a functional design.
How much do you plan to spend? Think about the necessities and your preferred materials and designs and create a budget for your bathroom renovation project. Depending on your needs, you might need to factor in the cost of flooring, wall coverings, fixtures, fitting, appliances, lighting, ventilation, and labour rates for the necessary professionals. Costs of fixtures and fittings vary depending on the style, size, and quality of your chosen products. Using a contractor that can do every part of the project will likely cost less than hiring individual contractors for every step.
You’ll get a more realistic idea about prices when you get quotes from contractors, but it’s still smart to have a rough idea about what you can afford.
Choose Your Design
Once you have your contractor in place, you can choose your design. Your contractor will consult to discuss your needs, ideas, and ultimately, your chosen design. The design includes everything from layout and colour scheme to the heating, ventilation, wall coverings, flooring, lighting, and fixtures and fittings. When you work with a skilled contractor, they can help you set the right mood in your bathroom, whether you prefer dark and bold, bright and airy, or earth tones are your preferred colour scheme. The designer will offer advice about what colours work well with the style of bathroom you want and the size of your space, but it’s ultimately up to you.
You can lose track of costs easily when it comes to choosing your fixtures and fittings, so make sure you have a clear idea of where you want to spend big and where you don’t mind pulling back on quality. The same is true of tiles, whether it’s for the floors or the walls. You can choose a cheaper material and still achieve the same look without splashing out on marble.
The designer will walk you through your lighting options and this is where many people go wrong. Task lights are a must for illuminating the mirror area, ceiling lights provide general lighting, and downlights or wall lights can give ambient lighting.
When it comes to choosing your furniture, consider how much storage you need and how that will realistically fit into your space.
Removal & Installation
The new bathroom can’t be installed until the old one is removed. While you could save money by handling the removal yourself, it’s much easier to let the professionals handle the task to avoid damage and additional costs.
Once that’s complete, the installation can begin and it starts with the first fix, which is plumbing and electrical. The wall coverings are next, then the floor, and fixtures and fittings before the finishing decorative touches like mirrors and lighting are installed.
The Timeline
Maybe all you want to know is how long it takes. That depends, but we can give you a general sense of the timeline. The planning and design stage can take anywhere from three to six weeks and that largely comes down to the size of the project and the adjustments to the plan to tweak it to your dream bathroom. It can take up to eight weeks to get all the materials in place and a day to prepare the site.
Removing the old bathroom can take a day, but longer if the space is larger or complicated. Likewise, the plumbing and electrical work could be done in a day, but if you’re changing the layout and there are major changes, it could take several days to complete the work. The wall and floor preparation and covering can take several days and require time to dry or set, and a day or two to install the fixtures and fittings.
All in all, you should plan for a four-week renovation, but your contractor will be able to give you a firm timeline once the scope of the project is clear.
- Call Crystal Bathroom Renovations in Sydney
Crystal Bathrooms in Sydney provides a full bathroom renovation service, delivering your dream bathroom from the design stage through to project completion.
